Noah Barkin
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What can one do except weep for a country whose leaders would vilify a woman killed in front of her wife and dog like this, by a masked man whose reaction to ending someone’s life is to call her a fucking bitch?
January 9, 2026 at 8:16 PM
What can one do except weep for a country whose leaders would vilify a woman killed in front of her wife and dog like this, by a masked man whose reaction to ending someone’s life is to call her a fucking bitch?
EU-Mercosur done👇🏼
January 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
EU-Mercosur done👇🏼
If the EU ever decides to respond to Trump’s sanctioning of Thierry Breton (a big if), this guy would be a good place to start
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Trump ally who inspired Greenland purchase idea quietly invests in Greenlandic companies - ArcticToday
Ronald Lauder, the billionaire Estée Lauder heir who, according to former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, first put the idea of “buying” Greenland into Donald Trump’s mind, has quietly tak...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
If the EU ever decides to respond to Trump’s sanctioning of Thierry Breton (a big if), this guy would be a good place to start
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US officials have discussed sending lump sum payments of up to $100,000 to every Greenlander as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and join the United States, sources tell Reuters
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Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
The idea of directly paying residents of Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark, offers one explanation of how the U.S. might attempt to "buy" the island of 57,000 people.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:23 AM
US officials have discussed sending lump sum payments of up to $100,000 to every Greenlander as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and join the United States, sources tell Reuters
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Trump makes clear that he won’t be satisfied with anything short of US “ownership” of Greenland. No explanation of why this is necessary given US has free rein to increase its presence. Just the deranged whims of one man.
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Highlights From The Times’s Interview With President Trump
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January 9, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Trump makes clear that he won’t be satisfied with anything short of US “ownership” of Greenland. No explanation of why this is necessary given US has free rein to increase its presence. Just the deranged whims of one man.
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Canada’s PM Carney frames his upcoming visit to China as part of a push to diversify trade away from US
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Prime Minister Carney to build strategic partnerships, diversify Canada’s trade, and attract new investment in visits to the People’s Republic of China and Switzerland
Canada’s new government is moving our economy from reliance to resilience – building our strength at home, working to double our non-U.S. exports, and attracting massive new investment.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Canada’s PM Carney frames his upcoming visit to China as part of a push to diversify trade away from US
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Key line from NYT interview: Trump appeared far more focused on the capture mission than the details of how to navigate Venezuela’s future.
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Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years
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January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Key line from NYT interview: Trump appeared far more focused on the capture mission than the details of how to navigate Venezuela’s future.
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Trump allowed NY Times reporters to listen in on his call with the Colombian president 🫣
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January 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Trump allowed NY Times reporters to listen in on his call with the Colombian president 🫣
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“Their world view is better captured in the idea of brutal mercantilism, assertion of power, almost 19th century militarism, than it is a Kissingerian order in which you conduct a carefully balanced ordering of these different regions”
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Brussels Sprouts
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January 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
“Their world view is better captured in the idea of brutal mercantilism, assertion of power, almost 19th century militarism, than it is a Kissingerian order in which you conduct a carefully balanced ordering of these different regions”
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European lawmakers are putting pressure on the Commission to act more forcefully against Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok after it generated sexually explicit images of minors that were shared on X and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler
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Good morning. Today, our Cyprus correspondent reports from the formal opening of the island nation’s presidency of the EU Council, and our tech correspondent reveals demands for Brussels to be tougher on Elon Musk’s “illegal content”-producing AI chatbot Grok.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:26 AM
European lawmakers are putting pressure on the Commission to act more forcefully against Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok after it generated sexually explicit images of minors that were shared on X and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler
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Option 1 is the only acceptable one from Denmark’s, Greenland’s and the EU’s point of view. In practice, it would give the US everything it needs. In Trump’s dystopian world, where power and ownership are everything, it appears not to be enough
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How Donald Trump could take control of Greenland
US president wants to take the vast Arctic territory from Denmark. What could he really do?
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January 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Option 1 is the only acceptable one from Denmark’s, Greenland’s and the EU’s point of view. In practice, it would give the US everything it needs. In Trump’s dystopian world, where power and ownership are everything, it appears not to be enough
www.ft.com/content/2f06...
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Anong the international bodies from which the US is withdrawing:
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
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- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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January 8, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Anong the international bodies from which the US is withdrawing:
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
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- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Rubio to meet with Danish foreign minister on Greenland next week. Says would prefer to take control of the island without using military means. But that is an option for dealing with threats to national security. Horrendous
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US to discuss future of Greenland with Danish officials ‘next week’
Announcement comes as Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Arctic island leads to alarm among European allies
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January 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Rubio to meet with Danish foreign minister on Greenland next week. Says would prefer to take control of the island without using military means. But that is an option for dealing with threats to national security. Horrendous
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There is a lot of talk about what Europeans will do if Trump follows though on his illegal plans towards Denmark. But I would like to know what Americans are expected to do
January 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
There is a lot of talk about what Europeans will do if Trump follows though on his illegal plans towards Denmark. But I would like to know what Americans are expected to do
Jedi-mind trick might work with Trump
January 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Jedi-mind trick might work with Trump
Europe should be offering the US a cooperative arrangement on Greenland that maintains its current status, while making clear that a coercive takeover would end the US-EU trade deal and trigger major restrictions for US firms under the ACI
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US says using military is among ‘options’ to acquire Greenland
White House says annexation of semi-autonomous territory from Denmark is ‘national security priority’
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January 7, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Europe should be offering the US a cooperative arrangement on Greenland that maintains its current status, while making clear that a coercive takeover would end the US-EU trade deal and trigger major restrictions for US firms under the ACI
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“That money will be controlled by me”
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 AM
“That money will be controlled by me”
Will Trump see the EU-Mercosur deal as a challenge to his imperial ambitions in Latin America? Not as crazy a question as it might have seemed just a few weeks ago.
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Mercosur deal collides with ‘Donroe Doctrine’
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January 7, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Will Trump see the EU-Mercosur deal as a challenge to his imperial ambitions in Latin America? Not as crazy a question as it might have seemed just a few weeks ago.
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Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring Greenland. Rubio told lawmakers that Trump wants to buy the territory rather than launch an invasion. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
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January 7, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring Greenland. Rubio told lawmakers that Trump wants to buy the territory rather than launch an invasion. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
China continues to squeeze Japan, two months after Takaichi's Taiwan comments. My sense is that we haven't seen nearly enough support for Tokyo from other G7 countries. This would have looked very different under Biden
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China bans dual-use goods exports for Japan military over Taiwan remarks
China has banned exports of dual-use items to Japan that can be used for military purposes, according to a commerce ministry statement on Tuesday, Beijing's latest move in reaction to an early Novembe...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
China continues to squeeze Japan, two months after Takaichi's Taiwan comments. My sense is that we haven't seen nearly enough support for Tokyo from other G7 countries. This would have looked very different under Biden
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Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but there is no repetition of Fredriksen’s “end of NATO” line here. They may realize this is not a deterrent for Trump when it comes to Greenland. It may even provide extra incentive
January 6, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but there is no repetition of Fredriksen’s “end of NATO” line here. They may realize this is not a deterrent for Trump when it comes to Greenland. It may even provide extra incentive
Trump owns this crackdown and is probably happy to. But it’s a horrible look for the US. And I’m not sure American voters, weary of foreign entanglements, will applaud. Hard not to think that the Venezuelan adventure poses a big risk for Republicans in the midterms.
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
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January 6, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Trump owns this crackdown and is probably happy to. But it’s a horrible look for the US. And I’m not sure American voters, weary of foreign entanglements, will applaud. Hard not to think that the Venezuelan adventure poses a big risk for Republicans in the midterms.
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